AI didn’t come out of nowhere.
Its Big Bang was Alan Turing’s model of computation — first described in 1936 — the spark that lit the fuse for everything we now call intelligence.Now, almost 100 years later, we’re at the precipice — either AI helps level the playing field, or a lot more motherfuckers are going to starve. Naturally, I lean toward the latter — because greed is one hell of a drug, and the kings of industry now have a means to pluck peasants from their payroll.
The World Economic Forum has projected that over the next five years, 69 million jobs will be erased. Not replaced. Not relocated. They’ll simply be decimated.
With that being said, 69 million people will scurry like cockroaches trying to survive, while your corporate oligarchs shit on golden toilets, high off ketamine and power.
Listen, man — facts are facts.
And to add salt to an open wound, Goldman Sachs projects 300 million+ jobs globally will disappear. Let’s not sugarcoat it — this is by design.I currently work for a Fortune 500 company, and we’re in the midst of a total AI transformation. And the powers that be? Let’s just say they’re marketing this evolution like the second coming of Christ.
The feces that falls from their mouths amazes me.
Their PR campaign — about how AI is going to be used to remove the “redundancy” of your position and free you up to focus on the cool stuff — is as laughable as trickle-down economics.Let’s be clear: AI will be leveraged to remove jobs.
And nothing more.Sure, it won’t happen overnight to all of us. But if you sit behind a computer screen, push paper, or serve customers — you better not blink, because the reaper is closer than you think.
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